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< Back Lisa Kenner Grissom lisa.kenner@gmail.com 310-770-8887 https://lisakennergrissom.com Coverfly The Black List Lisa is a Boston-born, LA-based award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and producer who writes comedic dramas and dramatic comedies. She is known for creating multi-layered characters, exploring the complexity of human emotions, and finding levity in discomfort. Lisa wrote and produced the multiple award-winning short film, TATTOO YOU, which has screened at 15+ film festivals nationally and internationally. Lisa is currently on a jag writing about female Jewish resistance fighters and is generally drawn to writing stories about fascinating, undiscovered, badass women, set either in the past or today. Her hour-long TV Pilot, FANIA IN THE FOREST, was a Top 5 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Finalist, among other accolades. Additional TV and Film projects include FOLLOWING FANIA, a documentary in development, and the comedy feature, GROWN-UP BULLY. In the works is a feature adaptation of her award-winning, critically-acclaimed play, HERE COMES THE NIGHT. In addition to the IWC, Lisa is a proud member of The Dramatist Guild, Playwrights Union, and Reboot. Lisa is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received her MFA in Stage and Screen at Lesley University. When she’s not typing away, she’s probably walking on a beach, taking in some art, or listening to live music. Fun fact: Lisa played left wing for her Division 3 collegiate women’s ice hockey team. Honors & Awards Top 5 Finalist - ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship - FANIA IN THE FOREST - 2022 non-WGA Female, Over 40 FANIA IN THE FOREST (TV hour-long Drama - A SMALL LIGHT meets WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES ) When a rebellious 16 year-old Jewish girl narrowly escapes the Vilna ghetto for the forest to join a group of young resistance fighters intent on disrupting the Nazi war machine, her goal to find her scattered family will test the safety of the entire brigade. GROWN-UP BULLY (Comedy Feature) When Tammy, the bully who never grew up and never left her small town, learns that her teenage daughter is being bullied, she embarks on a mission to seek forgiveness from her high school target, redeem herself as a mom, and grow up—even if it means finally leaving her hometown to do it. Character-driven, Female-centric, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series, Bittersweet, Snarky, Naturalistic Female, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Kelly Anelons kanelons@me.com Kelly is a TV and feature writer with a knack for finding the funny, especially in life’s worst situations. She’s been lost in Mongolia, served as the youngest member of a Congressional campaign (back when that was fun), and talked her way into running a small marketing firm. She’s the only child of workaholic parents, and spent hours watching Mel Brooks, Laurel and Hardy, and Carol Burnett doing the thing she loved: making people laugh. She writes with her daughter, Megan, as one of Hollywood’s only mother/daughter writing team. Together, they tell multi-generational, female-driven stories for TV and features and are producing a sitcom about their partnership. They also read and review YA and romance novels on their social media platforms, which have garnered over 40,000 followers. Her hobbies include thinking of getting some hobbies, mentoring young writers, and obsessing over YA novels. Her goals are to write a sex comedy for Helen Mirren, learn to walk in high heels… and of course, world peace. Honors & Awards Imagine Impact x Netflix - Finalist - A.K.A. - 2021 StoryPros - Winner/Best Comedy Script - BEST LAID PLANS - 2020 Nashville Film Festival - Winner/Best Comedy Script - LIFE'S A BEAUT - 2019 non-WGA Female, 40+ A.K.A. Action comedy - GROSS POINTE BLANK meets SPY When her cover is blown, the CIA’s top operative trades in her high-stakes lifestyle to hide out in the one place she swore she’d never return…the antiquated New England island where she was born. Can she protect her eccentric, combative family or will she kill them herself? BEST LAID PLANS Dramedy - HACKS meets HOPE SPRINGS When her husband of 40 years dies, a repressed widow resolves to find out what she’s been missing. She risks her reputation and relationships with her co-dependent daughter and meddling BFF to help an irreverent young lesbian who’s trying to save Boston’s oldest sex shop. LIFE'S A BEAUT Dramedy - WE'RE THE MILLERS meets THE WAY WAY BACK A straitlaced young woman explores a crooked branch of her family tree when she teams up with a grifting grandma to track down a kidney donor for her rebellious younger sister. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Bittersweet, Silly, Snarky Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Ben Rosen benjamin.rosen@gmail.com Coverfly Ever since Ben was forced to write the scripts for his middle school’s public access cable TV show, he's dreamed of disappointing his parents and becoming a professional comedy writer. He’s pitched jokes and story ideas to various TV shows and has been a semi-finalist or higher in the DISNEY WRITING PROGRAM, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL, SCRIPTAPALOOZA, and FINAL DRAFT BIG BREAK. When he’s not performing stand-up comedy or writing about himself in the third person, Ben enjoys playing indie video games, hanging out with his family (the one he created, not the one he escaped from), and telling everyone about the rabbi from his hometown who murdered his wife. Honors & Awards Semi-finalist, Disney Writing Program – “The Office – The Bathroom” – 2007 Semi-finalist, Austin Film Festival – “Pen15 – Hot Date” – 2022 Quarter-finalist, Final Draft Big Break – “The Fruit Store” – 2013 non-WGA Male, Over 40 THE FRUIT STORE Half-hour TV comedy pilot After his startup fails, a humbled millennial is forced to swallow his pride and work at America’s favorite tech store/cult: The Apple Store. PEN15 – HOT DATE Half-hour TV comedy spec When her mom forbids her from dating the only guy in school who likes her, Maya tries to secretly go out with him without getting caught. Meanwhile, Anna tries to get a boyfriend of her own by becoming a guys’ girl. Character-driven, Female-centric, Coming-of-Age, Animation, Dark, Silly, Snarky, Naturalistic Male, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Nicole Jones-Dion nicole@praxiscope.com Matt Prater, Citizen Skull https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1955614/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1 Coverfly The Black List Nicole Jones-Dion is an acclaimed Los Angeles-based writer-director who specializes in telling elevated genre stories. Beginning her career in comics and video games, she transitioned to screenwriting, writing features for SyFy Channel, Lionsgate, and Sony - including an adaptation of the best-selling martial arts game Tekken. An Army Brat, Nicole had a nomadic upbringing, living in places as diverse as Hawaii and Germany before her family finally settled down in Wilmington, NC. In school, she won the North Carolina Writer's Award for a full scholarship to Duke University, where she studied Creative Writing, History, and Theology. After graduation, she did her own brief stint in the Army before relocating to LA. In her spare time, Nicole volunteers with the National Park Service and advocates for military veterans in the entertainment industry. Honors & Awards FOX Writers Incubator -Winner - WIKI - 2022 The Grey List - Official Selection - STILL WATERS - 2023 The Stunt List Originals Bureau - Official Selection - WIKI - 2024 non-WGA Female, 40+ WIKI (1 hour drama - YA Horror) A modern-day reimagining of The Monkey’s Paw for the internet generation. The lives of three college friends are turned upside down when they discover a mysterious online wiki site. Any changes made to the wiki magically come true in the real world — with unpredictable and deadly consequences. BACK TRACK (1 hour drama - Crime) When a young horse trainer is found trampled to death, police write it off as a tragic accident... until her father receives an anonymous tip that she was murdered. Now, it’s up to a professor-turned-private investigator to find her killer before he strikes again. Adapted from the novels by Joseph A. McCaffrey. JUVIE (Feature - YA Horror) A delinquent teenage girl discovers a pattern among unexplained deaths at a juvenile detention facility - they all die before they turn 18 and "age out" of the system. With her own 18th birthday looming, she must find out who is behind the mysterious deaths before she becomes the next victim. Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, YA Female, 40+ Repped

< Back Christina Hulen chulen27@gmail.com Lawyer: Sarah Lerner - Katz, Golden, Lerner: 310-264-2163 https://christinahulen.weebly.com/ Coverfly Christina Hulen is an award-winning Writer / Director / Producer. Her female-centered work has won the Meryl Streep-funded Writers Lab and was a Top 10 female-written script in the Nicholl Fellowship. Her script, A GENTLEMAN OF GOOD HOPE was announced as a winner of the IWC “Best Of” screenwriting competition in its inaugural year. The script is currently in pre-production at New North Pictures with producers Charlotte Rothwell and Nicola Pearcey attached. Chrisina has been a selected participant to the CineStory Feature Lab as well as the Stowe Story Lab. She was the recipient of the Arch and Bruce Brown literary Fellowship and received a $25,000 grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation to help fund her latest directorial project EVERYTHING'S FINE. which premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. EVERYTHING'S FINE has garnered 14 Jury prizes to date. As a producer, she was part of the award-winning independent features A MARINE STORY and SHELTER, which won the GLAAD award for best Narrative feature limited release. For television, she was a producer on the final season of BRUNCH WITH BRIDGET for the LOGO channel. Christina writes and directs across genres, but holds a special place in her heart for historical dramas featuring LGBTQ+ storylines. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LA MAUPIN- 2024 Finalist, Cannes Screenwriters List - LA MAUPIN - 2024 The Women's List - WARBIRDS - 2024 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ A GENTLEMAN OF GOOD HOPE (BOYS DON'T CRY meets THE IMITATION GAME) At the turn of the 19th Century, a controversial yet brilliant British military surgeon must battle detractors who would subvert his pioneering reforms while maintaining a secret that could end his career. He is a woman. LA MAUPIN (LA VIE EN ROSE meets AMADEUS) Born the daughter of a servant in the court of Louis the XIV, a brilliant young woman uses sex and the sword on her journey to escape a death sentence and become the most celebrated opera singer in France: La Maupin. WARBIRDS (HIDDEN FIGURES meets A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN) This high-flying WWII adventure follows a naive farm girl leaving the only life she's ever known to chase her dream of joining the elite Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), only to discover that dream threatened when she falls for a fellow female recruit. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Historical/Alternative History, Naturalistic, International Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ unrepped

< Back Sage Wells sfire8@hotmail.com 323-434-5580 Coverfly IMDB Profile Sage is a former teacher and playwright from a small farming community in the Central Valley of California. She spent a year researching indigenous arts and culture in Indonesia while at UC Santa Barbara, studied playwriting at Emerson College, and earned an MFA in screenwriting from The American Film Institute. She is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist, and her directorial debut, the pandemic short film, HELPER, is currently making the festival rounds. She works on set as a studio teacher for children in entertainment, and lives and writes in the mountains of Los Angeles with her husband and two young sons. Honors & Awards Official Selection, Dances With Films - HELPER - 2021 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2024 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2018 non-WGA Female, 40+ LULLABY (Drama Feature) A recovering heroin addict returns home to substitute teach at her old high school and learns that the baby she gave up for adoption fourteen years ago attends the same school. SHE (Horror Feature) A troubled teen, sent to an all-girls wilderness therapy camp in Utah, must fight for survival when a mysterious female creature appears to be stalking and hunting them. WEDLOCK (Drama One Hour Episodic) Teenage best friends, Kent, a closeted gay man, and Frankie, a bisexual woman, enter a mixed-orientation “lavender” marriage in 1970, Los Angeles and struggle to stay together for the next 45 years. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series, Naturalistic Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Lynn Esta Goldman LynnEstaGoldman@gmail.com 415-902-6800 Coverfly Lynn Esta Goldman was born and raised in Miami and later escaped to San Francisco, where she worked as an artist and dancer, teaching ballroom and salsa, before becoming interested in film and screenwriting. Her life experiences range from teaching a hundred Chinese to salsa dance on a Shanghai riverboat to working on a Pediatric HIV ward. She was a finalist in the Nicholl Competition with two different screenplays, won a Gold Prize in the PAGE, and is a member of The Writers Lab sponsored by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. Her screenplay, THE WAY YOU MOVE, is in development with producer Mitchell Peck . She writes dramas, thrillers and dramedies. Honors & Awards Nicholl Fellowship - Finalist - ANGEL ON THE WALL - 2015 Nicholl Fellowship - Finalist - ON THE WING - 2019 PAGE - Gold Prize - BUSTER AND TONY 2024 non-WGA Female, 55+ THE HALF-SISTERHOOD Science Fiction When an orphan runs her DNA, she learns that she has multiple half-sisters – all born the same day, all with the same unique green eye color, all with the same father whose DNA is not human, and all the key to averting a coming pandemic, if only they can outwit forces determined to destroy them first. BUSTER AND TONY Dramedy, Comps are "As Good as it Gets," "The Friend" When an ambitious attorney inherits her sister’s feisty little terrier, she must deal with the messiness of caring for an adorable mutt, juggling an even messier divorce, and overcoming the sexist boneheads at work if she’s ever going to recreate a sense of the family she’s lost. THE FIFTH PRISONER Espionage Action Thriller, The Night Manager/The Spy Who Came in From the Cold While tracking a high-level terrorist, a CIA agent uncovers a plot to overthrow the U.S. government and is forced to choose between saving his threatened family or stopping the conspirators behind the coup: his own countrymen. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Dark, International, Magical Realism Female, 55+ unrepped

< Back Catherine Vouvray cathvouvray@gmail.com http://commelevin.com Coverfly Catherine Vouvray grew up gay in God’s country – the bible belt South – fearing for her life at home with mentally ill parents and out in the rural world, where those in the LGBTQIA+ community were killed for sport. Education saved her life, but writing saved her soul. Her work is focused on empathy, relationships, mental health, and finding the funny in dark times. A published short story writer and produced writer/director, Vouvray’s mission is to add to queer cinema while often placing older (gasp!) women at the epicenter of stories ranging from comedy to drama, to rom-com, to family, and finally, to animation. Oh, and yes, she also writes straight stuff for the youth. Vouvray is in post-production on her first independent feature film, All Wounds , which apparently needs a new title because it isn't a horror. Her influences include Waller-Bridges, Sciamma, Gaudagnino, and Manuel-Miranda. When not indulging in filmmaking, Vouvray writes novels, including The Months of Payne. Catherine is currently a proud fellow of the Michener Center for Writers. Honors & Awards Universal Global Talent Development & Inclusion - Semifinalist - LES GO! - 2021 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ LES GO! Lesbian rom-com After using a lesbian-dating app to research a new role and accidentally meeting Ms. Right, a lonely, middle-aged movie star must redefine what love and career mean to her before she loses both. AUTHOR OF THE EPILOGUE romantic dramedy An elderly woman journeys home to England with her husband's ghost to reconnect with the love she left behind--a woman--before her son puts her in a nursing home. CODENAME: MAME 1/2 hour TV spy comedy An insular, sexy, sixty-year-old spy forced into retirement secretly continues targeting an international crime syndicate who then comes after her and her first-ever friends in the retirement community where she's gone undercover. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Romantic, Historical/Alternative History, International Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ unrepped

< Back Jen Bosworth-Ramirez jenbosworthramirez@gmail.com http://www.jenbosworthramirez.com Coverfly Jen Bosworth-Ramirez is a Latina tv/feature writer based in Los Angeles and Chicago. She's a former assistant to Nic Cage-turned therapist for felons-turned writer. The daughter of a fierce Colombian immigrant mom and car thief-turned used car salesman father, Jen writes dark comedies in the adult space and heartfelt, mental health focused television for bridge aged kids. She currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Chicago where she lives with her shy husband and their recalcitrant dog, Doris. Honors & Awards Current Sesame Workshop Writer's Room Fellow Current Unlock Her Potential Mentee of Stacy Traub, Writer/Showrunner (Black Ish, Daisy Jones, The Real O'Neals) non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Latinx, 40+ MAN)DATED 30 min dark, workplace comedy - Breaking Bad x Community When a burnt out therapist, drowning in student debt, is assigned a fresh out of prison, charming, drug kingpin as her new client, she finds herself breaking rules, pushing boundaries, and falling head over heels for a guy whose primary love language is murder. LINDA & CO. 11 minute animated heartfelt comedy for bridge age kids When Linda Romero, a brilliant visual artist, and the daughter of Colombian immigrant parents begins having panic attacks, she learns it's okay to reach out for help. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Coming-of-Age, Children's, Animation, Snarky Female, BIPOC, Latinx, 40+ unrepped

< Back Stephen Nolly oldfactoryfilms@gmail.com Sherice Dugan Manager | Sandstone Artists m: (818) 681-8013 e: sherice@sandstoneartists.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3575331/ Coverfly The Black List Stephen Nolly is a biracial, Japanese/Jewish Air Force brat who cut his teeth in New York’s theater scene. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he was a resident artist at TriBeCa’s Flea Theater (Drama Desk, OBIE Award). After his start in downtown theater, Stephen found that the film & television world was lacking the diversity of stories that he wanted to tell - and he realized he was the only person suited to tell them. Stephen is currently a Fellow at the RespectAbility Entertainment Lab, a Finalist for the Paramount Writers Mentorship and the Warner Brothers Writers’ Workshop Finalist, was accepted into Soho House Script House Lab (with Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang), received the CA Individual Artist Fellowship, won the Thriller Genre in the ISA Fast Track Fellowship, and been included on The Naughty List, and The Originals Bureau. His scripts have advanced at the Austin Film Festival, Sundance Episodic & Feature Labs, Slamdance, PAGE, and most recently been a Finalist for Film Pipeline, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices, and the Circle of Confusion Discovery Fellowship. Stephen enjoys high-concept, socially conscious stories, is an amateur locksmith, dabbles in horology (watchmaking), writing musical theater, was a competitive international ballroom dancer, and a member of Mensa. Honors & Awards Fellow - RespectAbility Entertainment Lab - 2024 Finalist - Paramount Writers Mentorship - HOWLIE - 2022 Finalist - Warner Bros. Writers Workshop - CHILMARK, HOWLIE - 2020. 2021 non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Middle Eastern, Asian, Multi-Ethnic, Disabled, 40+ HOWLIE (Hourlong Teen Genre Pilot, Point Break x The Lost Boys) When half-Asian HANNAH arrives in Maui, she longs to be a legendary monster hunter like her father. But when she starts showing signs of lycanthropy, she discovers - she’s not a teenager turning into a werewolf. She’s a wolf that’s been living the past 16 years as a human. CUBA LIBRE (Hourlong Period Action Pilot, Mad Men x Narcos) LOGLINE: Between 1968 and 1972, more than 130 aircraft were hijacked, mostly to Havana, which led to the creation of the federal Sky Marshal program and culminated on November 24, 1971 with the hijacking of a Boeing 727 by man many believe to be a disavowed government agent: DB Cooper. BURAKU (Hourlong Samurai/Yakuza Crime Pilot, Shogun x Tokyo Vice) LOGLINE: An assassin escapes Edo-era Japan’s civil war and his family’s “untouchable” caste by joining the American Confederacy, but his legacy catches up with his modern-day descendant, who seeks to cure his own misfortune amidst Tokyo’s criminal underworld. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Procedural, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series Male, BIPOC, Middle Eastern, Asian, Multi-Ethnic, Disabled, 40+ Repped

< Back Veronica Chavira v.chavira@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2737758/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Veronica is a Los Angeles-based queer Latinx feature and TV dramedy writer whose family hails from East Los Angeles. She writes character driven coming-of-age stories about people who challenge the status quo and forge new paths with humor and gusto to create a better world. She attained her MFA in Screenwriting from Stephens College and is a proud active volunteer at the LGBT Center in Los Angeles. Honors & Awards Semifinalist - Austin Film Festival - NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL - 2022 2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival - ON HER TURF - 2022 2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival - THE WIN - 2022 non-WGA Female, Latinx, LGBTQ+ NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL (One hour Drama - think SELF MADE, MAID) In 1915, Asian American film pioneer Marion Wong decides to become a silent filmmaker after watching a racist Hollywood film of actors in yellow face to tell authentic Asian stories in the face of her family and society’s opposition. ON HER TURF (Half-hour Dramedy - think FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, GLOW) Identical twins Summ and Sarah were raised by their father, an NFL legend, to be athletic and driven. Together they dreamed of playing on the university football team until Sarah finds a newfound calling: to join a sorority. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series Female, Latinx, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< Back Tracy Held tracyheldconsulting@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6326686/ Tracy Held (she/they) is an award-winning, multi-racial Chinese/Eastern European American writer for stage and screen. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Tracy has a background in nonprofit fundraising and conservation science. She is a do-gooder with a heart of puns who writes like Rachel Bloom on PBS. Tracy uses her writing to defeat pessimism and to inspire collaboration and connection. Winner of an Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award, she is a co-founder of Erosion films, founder of All Terrain Theater, and served as a former Executive Director of the nonprofit Play Cafe. She was the Vice-Chair of the Writers Guild of America West Asian American Writers Committee. Tracy has a BS in Conservation and Resource Studies from UC, Berkeley and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon. non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Asian, Multi-Ethnic SCIENCE FAIR (Coming of Age Musical Feature) All Katie wants to do is save the world, and she has a step-by-step plan to do it, but first she needs to win her high school science fair which means accepting the hard-to-believe truth that she may not always be right. NATURE ORGANIZATION (Comedy, Pilot) Theresa Chin's first act as the new Executive Director of the struggling nonprofit Friends of the Local Parks is to eliminate the office hierarchy, but the human and animal staff fall apart without their beloved structure, and the newly-hired horse just wants to stop being stuck in the door. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Queer, Science, Coming-of-Age, YA Female, BIPOC, Asian, Multi-Ethnic unrepped